austere, adj 简朴的,不加修饰的;(人)严格节制的=ascetic 【例】a desert nomad's austere life 沙漠游牧者严格节制的生活an austere style 不加修饰的风格 【记】au读:诶哟,stere冷-诶哟,好一个冷美

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“Detective Poirot” Takes His Final Bow Sir Peter Ustinov, a brilliant wit and mimic who won two Oscars for an acting career that ranged from the evil Nero in Quo Vadis to the detective Poirot in D

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Thousands of people in the United States are not exactly homeless; more like houseless. They live in vehicles - RVs, campers, vans. And they follow the work, moving from job to job. The journalist Jessica Bruder embedded with this

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Some jobs these days require little more than a laptop and an internet connection, allowing many digital nomads the opportunity to live and work in cities across the world. But because they often only stay in a place for a few weeks or months at a ti

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In 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall fell, I visited a frozen food factory in Grimsby, on the north-east coast of England. 1989年,在柏林墙倒塌前几个月,我拜访了英格兰东北海岸格里姆斯比的一家冷冻食品厂。

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Regardless of their source, any methane molecules in Mars's atmosphere would, on the basis of experiments on Earth, be expected to hang around for centuries. 不论它从何而来,根据地球的实验,火星大气中的任何甲烷分子将有望徘

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